英语六级听力原文.docx

1、英语六级听力原文 6月英语六级听力原文长对话1：西班牙蔬菜汤M：Whats all that?Are you going to make a salad?W：No，Im going to make a gazpacho.M：Whats that?W：Gazpacho is a cold soup from Spain. Its mostly vegetables. I guess you can call it a liquid salad.M：Cold soup?Sounds weird.W：Its delicious. Trust me！I tried it for the first t

2、ime during my summer vacation in Spain. You see，in the south of Spain，it gets very hot and summer，up to 42 degrees Celsius，so a cold gazpacho is very refreshing. The main ingredients are tomato，cucumber，bell peppers，olive oil and stale bread.M：Stale bread?Surely you mean bread for dipping into the s

3、oup.W：No. bread is crushed and blended in，like everything else. It adds texture and thickness to the soup.M：umand is it healthy?W：Sure. As I said earlier，its mostly vegetables. You can also add different things if you like such as half-boiled eggs or cured ham.M：Cured ham?Whats that?W：Thats another

4、Spanish delicacy. Have you never heard of it?Its quite famous.M：No. Is it good too?W：Oh，yeah，definitely. Its amazing. Its a little dry and salty. And it is very expensive because it comes from a special type of pig that only eats a special type of food. The ham is covered in salt to dry and preserve

5、 it，and left hung for up to two years. It has a very distinct favor.M：um，sounds interesting. Where can I find some?W：It used to be difficult to get Spanish produce here，but its now a lot more common. Most large supermarket chains have cured ham in little packets. But in Spain，you can buy a whole leg

6、.M：A whole pig leg?Why would anybody want so much ham?W：In Spain，many people buy a whole leg for special group events such as Christmas. They cut it themselves into very thin slices with a long flat knife.Q1 What do we learn about gazpacho?Q2 For what purpose is stale bread mixed into gazpacho?Q3 Wh

7、y does the woman think gazpacho is healthy?Q4 what does the women say about cured ham?1。 A。 It is a Spanish soup2。 C。 To make it thicker。3。 B。 It is mainly made of vegetables。4。 D。 It comes from a special kind of pig。 长对话2：买酒送上司M：Hello，I wish to buy a bottle of wine.W：Hi，yes. What kind of wine would

8、 you like?M：I dont know. Sorry，I dont know much about wine.W：Thats no problem at all. Whats the occasion and how much would you like to spend?M：Its for my boss. Its his birthday. I know he likes wine but I dont know what type. I also did not want anything too expensive. Maybe middle range. How much

9、would you say is a middle range bottle of a wine approximately?W：Well，it varies greatly. Our lowest prices are around 60 dollars a bottle but those are table wines. They are not very special and I would not suggest them as a gift. On the other hand，our most expensive bottles are over a hundred and f

10、ifty dollars. If you are looking for something priced in the middle，I would say anything between 30 dollars and 60 dollars would make a decent gift. How does that sound?M：um，yeah. I guess something in the vicinity of 30 or 40 would be good. Which type would you recommend?W：I would say the safest opt

11、ion is always a red wine. They are generally more popular than whites and can usually be paired with food more easily. Our specialty here are Italian wines and these tend to be fruity with medium acidity. This one here is a Chianti which is perhaps Italys most famous type of red wine. Alternatively，

12、you may wish to try and surprise your boss with something less common such as this Zinfandel. The grapes are originally native to Croatia，but this winery is in eastern Italy. And it has more spicy and peppery flavor. So，to summarize，the Chianti is more classical and Zinfandel more exciting. Both are

13、 similarly priced，and just under 40 dollars.M：Ill go with Chianti then，thanks.Q5 What does the woman think of table wines?Q6 What is the price range of wine the man will consider?Q7 Why does the woman recommend red wines?Q8 What do we learn about the wine the man finally bought?5。 C。 They do not mak

14、e decent gifts。6。 D。 $30-$407。 A。 They go well with different kinds of food。8。 C。 It is Italys most famous type of red wine。 Passage One ： 战时密码Many people enjoy secret codes. The harder the code，the more some people will try to figure it out. In wartime，codes are especially important. They help army

15、 send news about battles and the sizes of enemy forces. Neither side wants its codes broken by the other. One very important code was never broken. It was used during World War II by the Americans. It was a spoken code never written down. And it was developed and used by Navajo Indians. They were ca

16、lled “the Navajo code talkers” the Navajos created the code in their own language. Navajo is hard to learn. Only a few people know it. So it was pretty certain that the enemy would not be able to understand the cold talkers. In addition，the talkers used code words. They called a submarine an iron fi

17、sh and a small bomb thrown by hand a potato. If they wanted to spell something，they used code words for letters of the alphabet. For instance，the letter A was ant or apple or eggs. The code talkers worked mostly in the islands in the Pacific. One or two would be assigned to a group of soldiers. They

18、 would send messages by field telephone to the code talker in the next group. And he would relay the information to his commander. The code talkers played an important part in several battles. They helped troops coordinate their movements and attacks. After the war，the US government honored them for

19、 what they had accomplished. Theirs was the most successful wartime code ever used.Q9 What does the speaker say many people enjoy doing?Q10 What do we learn about Navajo code talkers?Q11 What is the speaker mainly talking about?9。 B。 Decoding secret message。10。 D。 They helped the U.S。 army in World

20、War Two。11。 A。 A military code that was never broken。 Passage Two：科技会给将来经济/工作带来哪些变化If you are young and thinking about your career. You want to know where you can make a living. Well，its going to be a technological replacement of a lot of knowledge-intensive jobs in the next twenty years. Particular

21、ly，in the two largest sectors of labor force with professional skills. One is teaching and the other healthcare. You have so many applications and software and platforms that are going to come in and provide information and service in these two fields，which means a lot of healthcare and education se

22、ctors would be radically changed and a lot of jobs will be lost. Now，where will the new jobs be found?Well，the one extra economy cant be easily duplicated by even smart technologies is the caring sector，the personal care sector. That is，you cant really get a robot to do a great massage or physically

23、 therapy. Or you cant get the kind of personal attention your need with regard to therapy or any other personal services. They could be very high and personal services. Therapists do charge a lot of money. I think theres no limit to the amount of personal attention and personal care people would lik

24、e if they could afford it. But the real question in the future is how come people afford these things if they dont have money because they cant get a job that pays enough. Thats why I wrote this book which is about how to reorganize the economy for the future when technology brings about destructive

25、 changes to what we used to consider high income work.Q12 What does the speaker say will happen in the next 20 years?Q13 Where will young people have more chances to find jobs?Q14 What does the speaker say about therapists?Q15 What is the speakers book about?12。 C。 A lot of knowledge-intensive jobs

26、will be replaced。13。 D。 In the personal care sector。14。 B。 They charge high prices。15。 D。 The tremendous changes new technology will bring to peoples lives。 Recording 1：美国发现世界上最早铺设高速公路American researchers have discovered the worlds oldest paved road，a 4,600-year-old highway. it linked a stone pit in

27、 the Egyptian desert to waterways that carried blocks to monument sites along the Nile.The eight-mile road is at least 500 years older than any previously discovered road. It is the only paved road discovered in ancient Egypt，said geologist Thomas Bown of the U.S. Geological Survey. He reported the

28、discovery Friday，The road probably doesnt rank with the pyramids as a construction feat，but it is a major engineering achievement, said his colleague，geologist James Harrell of the University of Toledo. Not only is the road earlier than we thought possible，we didnt even think they built roads.The re

29、searchers also made a discovery in the stone pit at the northern end of the road：the first evidence that the Egyptians used rock saws. This is the oldest example of saws being used for cutting stone, said Bowns colleague，James Hoffmeier of Wheaton College in Illinois,Thats two technologies we didnt

30、know they had, Harrell said. And we dont know why they were both abandoned.The road was discovered in the Faiyum Depression，about 45 miles southwest of Cairo. Short segments of the road had been observed by earlier explorers，Bown said，but they failed to realize its significance or follow up on their

31、 observations. Bown and his colleagues stumbled across it while they were doing geological mapping in the region.The road was clearly built to provide services for the newly discovered stone pit. Bown and Harrell have found the camp that housed workers at the stone pit. The road appears today to go

32、nowhere，ending in the middle of the desert. When it was built，its terminal was a dock on the shore of Lake Moeris，which had an elevation of about 66 feet above sea level，the same as the dock.Lake Moeris received its water from the annual floods of the Nile. At the time of the floods，the river and lake were at the same level and connected through a gap in the hills near the modern villages of el-Lahun and Hawara. Harrell and Bown believe that blocks were loaded onto barges during the dry season，t